Case file · High strangeness
The Philippi mummies
Two women's bodies, mummified in 1888 by local farmer Graham Hamrick with his own preserving formula, are displayed at the Barbour County Historical Museum.
1888 CE · 39.15, -80.04 · status: explained
The account
Hamrick, who patented his embalming process, used bodies of patients from the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston. The mummies toured with a circus, were damaged in a 1985 flood, and remain a regional oddity.